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| Tackling 'epistemicide' - the murder of knowledge |
| 2018-07-07 |
| [New24] What inspires a conversation about decolonized research? For some, it is an undertaking of overt engagement on the complexities of "re-imagining" the Global South, the myriad of experiences that shape peoples lives and the task of 're-thinking" our knowledge systems and how we relate to the world. For others, it is the challenge of exploring historically discarded knowledge and theory, and producing new and better ways of knowing. It is not merely a counter-narrative to western ideas about the pursuit of knowledge. It is looking through the eyes of the colonised, not just to voice the voiceless, but to prevent the dying of a people, their culture and their ecosystems. Simply put, the hegemonisation of knowledge which has occurred largely in sync with colonialisation, has entrenched notions of the developed Global North and the undeveloped Global South, which is still perpetuated today. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a Professor of Sociology, at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, conveys the violence inherent in this as, "epistemicide: the murder of knowledge. Unequal exchanges among cultures have always implied the death of the knowledge of the subordinated culture, hence the death of the social groups that possessed it." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Simply put, the hegemonisation of knowledge which has occurred largely in sync with colonialisation, has entrenched notions of the developed Global North and the undeveloped Global South, which is still perpetuated today. World-class codswallop. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-07-07 17:27 |
| #11 "Epistemicide" seems like a good description of these kinds of "Sectarian Studies." "We are all stupider for having heard that. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." |
| Posted by: james 2018-07-07 16:43 |
| #10 America is fat and stupid. That didn't always used to be the case. In fact, it's really only become a problem since then 50's - about when government started telling us what to eat. I suspect fixing the SAD (standard American diet) would fix the fat and stupid problem too, and issues like epistemicide would disappear on their own. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-07-07 15:53 |
| #9 Outside of the merest study of a globe would inform one that Australia is mostly uninhabited desert, Antarctica is an almost empty icy hellscape, and the remainder of the Southern Hemisphere is mostly ocean ... why, yes!, the Global North has more land, more people and is more developed. D'Oh! But if you are a neo-Marxist anti-Colonialist Deconstructionist obsessed with the Romantic School vision of "The Noble Savage" then that 'verbal diarrhea' makes perfect sense. Or you are a scam artist looking for a Progressive 'Mark' to donate to your think-tank . We could also embrace the Power of 'And', I suppose. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-07 15:48 |
| #8 BS like this has always implied the death of those who choose to believe in it. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-07 13:24 |
| #7 And some of those "quaint native customs that we should not judge...?" General Sir Charles James Napier: "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs." |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-07 13:13 |
| #6 What's it mean? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-07 12:37 |
| #5 Our juju is stronger than their juju. |
| Posted by: Fat Bob Gleager4645 2018-07-07 12:35 |
| #4 *Wow* That was ...something. I remember reading my first story by H.P. Lovecraft and wondering if the author was inspired, batshite nutz, or both. This reads like 'word salad'... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-07 11:14 |
| #3 But, hey, I'm all for slaying global warming. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-07-07 08:36 |
| #2 Very funny, Besoeker. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-07 04:49 |
| #1 Lucky for the author, the colonials stuck around long enough to teach her to read and write. But enough about her and her post-apartheid crutch riding. Obviously a bogus story. The intent of the posting was simply to add 'epistimecide' to the Rantburg University library of new and exciting words. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-07 04:48 |